The 'jingle' just before the game starts is, in my opinion, the most iconic sound of the arcades. It was just 'loud' and you could hear it from the other side of the arcade
Yeah the jingle at the beginning of both galaxian and Galaga send chills down my spine with nostalgia. More so then pac man or any other arcade game. Something about the sounds of these two games have really stuck with me.
I'm 55 years old and this was my favourite arcade machine as a kid. The intro tune takes me straight back to the amusement arcade in Smarts at Littlehampton a handful of 10p pieces and I was in heaven. Great memories, thanks for posting.
I was 13 back in 1979. We had just moved to great yarmouth over hear in the uk. It was amusment heaven and i loved it! Oh the joy of the sound of it all!!
Back in 1979, 1980 i was 10 yrs old and dominated the arcades in my area and scoreboards, flipping scores, and recall unlocking up to 3 Galaxip starfighters that would connect together. I was major addicted to Galaxian which led right into Galaga. 👾
Blessed is our Lord and savior my dear freind did you know that his name is holy and that loves you alot? that s why what about this to think about his love lets show him glory instead using o word with g its possible to give oppretunity to give thanks or blessing instead?
Just seen Galaxian game in a movie and reminds me of when I was addicted to it at school in '80s. Been on youtube and I'm buying one for £1400 - happy days!
me too. My dad used to take me to the arcades and watch as i spent the afternoon playing galaxian and then had a full on tantrum when we had to leave :D
I had the starting sound as my ringtone :-) Galaxian was the very first game that I've enjoyed in the arcades back then. Most of the time i just watch others playing all the arcade games like pacman, crazy climber, space invaders etc as I had limited allowance back then. But I did play galaxian enough to reach 14 flags as far as I can remember.
My buddy and I used to team up on the controls. I was the pilot and he was the gunner. It required obvious teamwork and timing to coordinate and be effective enough to "stay alive." (like Maverick and Goose before there ever was a Top Gun)
Awesome! I can't recall how many quarters I put into this machine, Galaga and Space invaders back in the day. Galaxian was one of my favorites and this looked and sounded like the deal deal too. I think I was pretty damn good playing it too, I'm going to have to build me a pi box!
Much prefer these 80s classic arcade games than what we have now. Missile command, tempest, asteroids, defender and gorf were among my favourites. Spent way too much time before school in the arcade.
This game had sounds that made me think of a theremin a little bit, and how that instrument was used a lot in old sci-fi movies. I figure the creators of Galaxian added these types of sounds for humor just as much as for giving that space alien feeling.
Wow. I played that game in a pub, at the age of 7 or 8. It was so fantastic cause the sounds were so brill for that time and the alien formation quite smooth and clever. I believe it was the first true multicolor shooter game in history. An absolutely classic and addictiv game, still today!
I bought one of these Galaxian pub table top games second hand in 1982 ex rental for £60 me and my Dad used it as our kitchen table for a while, brilliant fun.
@Jamez Replicade made a centipede and a tempest. seem really good quality. they're 100$ replicas. look and play identically to the original machines. only main difference is tempest has a dial, not a spinner, but from what I've heard it still plays well.
It's funny how the sounds bring all the memories back after nearly 40 years. The noise when you hit one of thoase yella ones is orgasmic for someone that doesn't get out much.
We played this every day for two years in the SMOKER'S room in Holmes Hall at Michigan State University. I sucked at it, but my buddy would go on and on and on... Thank you for posting this gem.
Late 70s early 80s i was 8-10... weekend trips to our caravan on isle of Sheppey... the clubhouse had this cabinet ALL my 10p went in it. Aaaaahhhn memories....ace time to be a kid. Thanks for the upload
This was one of the first early arcade games to be available in color. The Original Space Invaders and Asteroids were in Black and White. Namco had Capitalize on Taito's Space Invaders and reworked the A.I., allowing the enemies to move more freely instead of vertically and horizontally.
This is the oldest game I've ever played but I had a Namco collection game on DS. Still cool that I got to experience a game from the tail end of the 70s.
this was one of the very first arcade games to use colour graphics, it was quite a technical achievement at the time, especially when most of the arcade games from atari and exidy were using black and white graphics
I was eight years old in 1978. My dad took me to a pub one afternoon because there was something there he thought I might like. It was Galaxian.. I still remember it after all this time - it blew my mind! For some reason I thought the Atari home console came out after the Galaxian arcade machine, but apparently it was two years before?
Remember playing this and the bullets going through the attackers and wished it had rapid fire like GALAGA does where several shots could be fired. I just played this again tonight in a local Retro arcade, been a long time and got the highscore and I feel like I can do so much better if I play it more. Ah I'm hooked again just like the ole days.
I'm only 20 years old, who am I to feel nostalgic watching this video when I didn't grow up in the age of arcades, instead playing it on PS1 20-something years after the fact?
I cant believe this game is from 1979! While its sound is kind of grating, the visuals are still great looking, and enemy movement is incredible! I can't believe this and space invaders came out the same year. What a leap in technology! And yet space invaders remains the more iconic one
actally invaders came out in 78 and was written over 77. By the time anyone saw Galaxians it was 80 IIRC. Like in my memory there was easily 18 months between Space Invaders and Galaxians. The first colour ones were Galaxian, PacMan, AstroFighter, Donkey Kong..... Something like that
Tujunga, CA. 7-11 Corner of Foothill and Tujunga Canyon blvd. 1980...their machine was fast as hell, and the volume was LOUD! Great memories of candy, slurpees, and avoiding getting our asses kicked/our bikes stolen haha.
I played this the other night at a Flying J truck stop in PA. Back in '79 I was 18. This along with Pac Man and a few others were the main digital arcade games at the local sports bar. Pretty cool. This is being played too slow though, it moves alot faster if you fire quickly. :-) My mistake. I was playing Galga a more advanced version launched in 1981
Haha! Back in the day I had to skateboard or ride my bike 5 miles to play these games, not to mention work my ass off for my parents doing chores to earn the money to pay for them. Now you can play 100s of games without even getting out of bed... Thanks for the upload and the memories! REPLY
I used to play this as a child until the game stopped and I couldn't go any further, some number with alot of / all , ' 9's , millions ? Not sure . Would like to play again
I used to love this game. It was unbelievably exciting back in the day before we knew any better. Galaga was better though what with the double gun and the swerving bullets lol
Galaxians, gorf, Mr do, Mr dos castle, pac man, asteroids, defender, scramble, phoenix and vanguard where attack of the hawk men written by Freddie Mercury for the film flash Gordon is featured. Classic arcade games
This and "Galaga" are the two best games, but this was the first one from 1979, and then a year later, "Phoenix" was released, and it looked similar to this one, except the boss where you fight the mothership, and "Galaga" was a much better improvement than this game, and it was a sequel to this game.
Blimey I haven't seen this for decades. I once fell of the stool trying to avoid the reds and yellow ones. With a joystick or whatever they were called of course, impossible with buttons. The purple ones were horrific, the way they moved sideways at the end, made my stomach turn. In fact, my stomach was turning like in 1980 when I watched this just now !
you know,the past few days,I have gone back and started playing the old Atari 5200 games that I missed as a kid,namely Galaxian,and I never realized how BRUTAL the 5200 version is......lol.almost makes the Arcade version look tame!!!...lol :P
i wish i wasn’t that young how i play this game is through mini arcade they are really cool tho i have a “Dig Dug one, a Q*Bert one and a pretty big Namco Museum one”
I loved this game, along with Phoenix, if I ran out of money, I have my sister stand guard at the machine, so no-one could get on whilst I went to the kiosk to get more, lol.
same here! The local chippy had one installed in 1980, and so began my 40 year love of gaming. After that they got a 'Cosmic Guerilla' cabinet and another one who's name escapes me!
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The 'jingle' just before the game starts is, in my opinion, the most iconic sound of the arcades. It was just 'loud' and you could hear it from the other side of the arcade
totally - can't think of anything better.
The booms are pretty loud as well. I played the 1-Up machine at Best Buy and I could feel the "explosion" from the joy stick.
What about pac man jingle
I did love that!
Yeah the jingle at the beginning of both galaxian and Galaga send chills down my spine with nostalgia. More so then pac man or any other arcade game. Something about the sounds of these two games have really stuck with me.
Those sounds bring tears to my eyes.....I was a teenager. Life was so different.
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I'm 55 years old and this was my favourite arcade machine as a kid. The intro tune takes me straight back to the amusement arcade in Smarts at Littlehampton a handful of 10p pieces and I was in heaven. Great memories, thanks for posting.
Happy 40th Anniversary of this magnificent arcade Masterpiece.
Not magnificent, extraordinary
62*
Rino rusher VII will be 14 on Mar 13
45 years now
I was 13 back in 1979. We had just moved to great yarmouth over hear in the uk. It was amusment heaven and i loved it! Oh the joy of the sound of it all!!
Back in 1979, 1980 i was 10 yrs old and dominated the arcades in my area and scoreboards, flipping scores, and recall unlocking up to 3 Galaxip starfighters that would connect together. I was major addicted to Galaxian which led right into Galaga. 👾
I was 21 in 1980 and heavily addicted to this game. I remember playing one game for a couple of hours and I think I maxed the machine out.
Lol. You can't connect your ships in Galaxian.
@@PiroKUSSHe’s probably thinking of Galaga 88
Isn't they the same?
@@ericjay6021NOT AT ALL
THE soundtrack to my childhood. Glorious.
OMG... this game was so magic in 1979 !!! the graphic, the sound, fantastic !
Blessed is our Lord and savior my dear freind did you know that his name is holy and that loves you alot? that s why what about this to think about his love lets show him glory instead using o word with g its possible to give oppretunity to give thanks or blessing instead?
@@sebo3e get the fuck out of there and keep your "lord" with u ! oooooohh people like u are fanatics, go A-WAY !
@@sebo3e wow i never thought of it that way
OOPARTS...
@@sebo3e An ambulance is on its way sir
This old school arcade game take me back to the good old days of video arcade games when time was perfect
Just seen Galaxian game in a movie and reminds me of when I was addicted to it at school in '80s. Been on youtube and I'm buying one for £1400 - happy days!
I was totally adicted from 1979 to 1981
me too. My dad used to take me to the arcades and watch as i spent the afternoon playing galaxian and then had a full on tantrum when we had to leave :D
Even after.
@@MrDirkles I did the exact same in king Edwards’s bay arcade in cullercoats.
same here, we had one at the local fish and chip shop.
Me addicted in the mid 80s especially,and at the flippers/pinball machines top/as well.
I had the starting sound as my ringtone :-)
Galaxian was the very first game that I've enjoyed in the arcades back then.
Most of the time i just watch others playing all the arcade games like pacman, crazy climber, space invaders etc as I had limited allowance back then.
But I did play galaxian enough to reach 14 flags as far as I can remember.
I still have it as my ringtone. My notification sound is "intruder alert kill the humanoid" from Berzerk.
Same, this is the first game that resonated with me. Also remember weird ones like Phoenix and Tutankhamun. I too spent much of my time watching.
Thank you for letting me relive an early time of my life when I was King of Galaxian! I used to leave the arcade with a sore thumb.
same here
My buddy and I used to team up on the controls. I was the pilot and he was the gunner. It required obvious teamwork and timing to coordinate and be effective enough to "stay alive." (like Maverick and Goose before there ever was a Top Gun)
Awesome! I can't recall how many quarters I put into this machine, Galaga and Space invaders back in the day. Galaxian was one of my favorites and this looked and sounded like the deal deal too. I think I was pretty damn good playing it too, I'm going to have to build me a pi box!
Much prefer these 80s classic arcade games than what we have now. Missile command, tempest, asteroids, defender and gorf were among my favourites. Spent way too much time before school in the arcade.
This game had sounds that made me think of a theremin a little bit, and how that instrument was used a lot in old sci-fi movies. I figure the creators of Galaxian added these types of sounds for humor just as much as for giving that space alien feeling.
Wow. I played that game in a pub, at the age of 7 or 8. It was so fantastic cause the sounds were so brill for that time and the alien formation quite smooth and clever.
I believe it was the first true multicolor shooter game in history.
An absolutely classic and addictiv game, still today!
After you'd played this game a lot the attack patterns were predictable so you could more or less play it without looking at the screen.
I used to love playing this as a kid. The sounds are fabulous.
I bought one of these Galaxian pub table top games second hand in 1982 ex rental for £60 me and my Dad used it as our kitchen table for a while, brilliant fun.
I remember playing this game when i was around 6 years old and my parents would also play and compete with each other. Those were good times.
I would love to have this arcade machine for my man cave! Such memories :)
So why not buy one? There's one for sale in full working order near me for $700.
Dude!they have them for sale now.Look up Arcade 1up they are 300.00 at walmart
@Jamez Replicade made a centipede and a tempest. seem really good quality. they're 100$ replicas. look and play identically to the original machines. only main difference is tempest has a dial, not a spinner, but from what I've heard it still plays well.
@GTK get Galaga instead, it’s leagues above galaxian
@@Hylton_Hotelz Galaga and Galaxian both considered far superior than even FIFA 22.
It's funny how the sounds bring all the memories back after nearly 40 years. The noise when you hit one of thoase yella ones is orgasmic for someone that doesn't get out much.
lol know exactly the feeling :-)
I’m 16 so Im still young, but when I was a little little kid, there was a very old arcade in my area and i would go there JUST to play this, fun times
I always associated that sound with a heartbeat, and when it stops, my heart starts racing.
Galaxian 1979 Namco it's a wonderful classical retro game. Thanks for the great sharing. Have a happy day. Warm greetings, Arturo
Thanks for the visit.
We played this every day for two years in the SMOKER'S room in Holmes Hall at Michigan State University. I sucked at it, but my buddy would go on and on and on...
Thank you for posting this gem.
Truly outstanding at the time, the first RGB game in the world.
I’ll never forget seeing this in the Ridge Racer mini game on PS1. One of the first video games I ever played.
2:15 I love that sound! I don't know why but I do.
same!
sounds like a phone
*ThE PHoNE.... tHe PhOnE Is rInGINg*
Slow down at 0.25x it sounds cool
Me too, even though it's just the sound at 2:11 with a very low frequency
For 1979, this game was ahead of its time.
i'm 49 , use to plaing it when i was 13 years old til 18 years what memories and nostalgia !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .
are you alive now???
@@ayushpandey2370 yes i'm thanks to God
happy to hear that!!!
@@ayushpandey2370 thanks
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I love mame. I have it for my nodded Xbox thousands of old school arcade games pixel perfect it's priceless
Late 70s early 80s i was 8-10... weekend trips to our caravan on isle of Sheppey... the clubhouse had this cabinet ALL my 10p went in it. Aaaaahhhn memories....ace time to be a kid. Thanks for the upload
Happy 43rd Anniversary, GALAXIAN! 1979-2022.
I can't get the same pleasure from any game as I do from this game.
This was one of the first early arcade games to be available in color. The Original Space Invaders and Asteroids were in Black and White. Namco had Capitalize on Taito's Space Invaders and reworked the A.I., allowing the enemies to move more freely instead of vertically and horizontally.
This is the oldest game I've ever played but I had a Namco collection game on DS. Still cool that I got to experience a game from the tail end of the 70s.
Wow I didn't know there was an in between of Space Invaders and Galaga!
Can't believe this came from 1979, it looks considerably newer.
Arcade games used to be way ahead of home console games.
this was one of the very first arcade games to use colour graphics, it was quite a technical achievement at the time, especially when most of the arcade games from atari and exidy were using black and white graphics
They actually used to put coloured gels on the screens of some games to give the illusion of colour.
@@peteralexander2941 Indeed it is. Galaxian is the first arcade game to support real RGB graphics.
@@rusolarusso8372 hi im no tech expert. I do remember williams defender in colour at that time. I have a p.s 2 and i still play it now lol
really takes me back. thank you for sharing.
I was eight years old in 1978. My dad took me to a pub one afternoon because there was something there he thought I might like. It was Galaxian.. I still remember it after all this time - it blew my mind! For some reason I thought the Atari home console came out after the Galaxian arcade machine, but apparently it was two years before?
I used to play this with my grandad Miss it so much
Remember playing this and the bullets going through the attackers and wished it had rapid fire like GALAGA does where several shots could be fired. I just played this again tonight in a local Retro arcade, been a long time and got the highscore and I feel like I can do so much better if I play it more. Ah I'm hooked again just like the ole days.
This game took so many of my quarters...
Got far that the one enemy laughing
I have a namaco game box with this game. It has a button and joy stick. 1st game console I ever owned
I'm only 20 years old, who am I to feel nostalgic watching this video when I didn't grow up in the age of arcades, instead playing it on PS1 20-something years after the fact?
I cant believe this game is from 1979! While its sound is kind of grating, the visuals are still great looking, and enemy movement is incredible! I can't believe this and space invaders came out the same year. What a leap in technology! And yet space invaders remains the more iconic one
actally invaders came out in 78 and was written over 77. By the time anyone saw Galaxians it was 80 IIRC. Like in my memory there was easily 18 months between Space Invaders and Galaxians. The first colour ones were Galaxian, PacMan, AstroFighter, Donkey Kong..... Something like that
Tujunga, CA. 7-11 Corner of Foothill and Tujunga Canyon blvd. 1980...their machine was fast as hell, and the volume was LOUD! Great memories of candy, slurpees, and avoiding getting our asses kicked/our bikes stolen haha.
Ditto. Skokie
I like how back then games couldn't have two or more sounds couldn't playing at once so one would cut in and out
I played this the other night at a Flying J truck stop in PA. Back in '79 I was 18. This along with Pac Man and a few others were the main digital arcade games at the local sports bar. Pretty cool. This is being played too slow though, it moves alot faster if you fire quickly. :-) My mistake. I was playing Galga a more advanced version launched in 1981
Most beautiful sfx ever!
The cooler Space Invaders, even if it’s a year earlier
Haha! Back in the day I had to skateboard or ride my bike 5 miles to play these games, not to mention work my ass off for my parents doing chores to earn the money to pay for them. Now you can play 100s of games without even getting out of bed... Thanks for the upload and the memories!
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Reminds me of family holidays to the seaside when I was a kid, early 80s
Pretty good score dude, this game is brutal.
lol I remember this one well. Arcade days.
I played this game today and I love it. I want a copy of the game
I used to play this as a child until the game stopped and I couldn't go any further, some number with alot of / all , ' 9's , millions ? Not sure . Would like to play again
I remember booting up windows to play this. memories.
I have namco museum for ds and I just now played this!
I love how the ship looks like a Y-Wing. Awesome game!
Thankful to own the arcade cabinet even though it's out of order..
This is just a year after Space Invaders. This game must have looked fucking mind-blowing at the time.
Can confirm. The worse part was a quarter was a lot of money to kids at the time.
Couldn’t wait to play that when I went on hols new where to go straight away in morecambe
Its coming to the ps4 and Nintendo switch this month as an arcade archives game!!!
1:00 Woody Woodpecker, is that you?
I used to love this game. It was unbelievably exciting back in the day before we knew any better. Galaga was better though what with the double gun and the swerving bullets lol
Loved this game, along with Galaxians.
If I ran out of money, I have my sister stand guard whilst I went to the kiosk to get more, lol.
best game ever !
And "Galaga" was way more advanced than is one. Still a pretty decent game.
Breakout by far
13:00
Noooooooooooooo!!!
:)
The better game than games in these days - too complex and weird.
Casi lloré al volver a mirar este grandioso juego.
Galaxians, gorf, Mr do, Mr dos castle, pac man, asteroids, defender, scramble, phoenix and vanguard where attack of the hawk men written by Freddie Mercury for the film flash Gordon is featured. Classic arcade games
This and "Galaga" are the two best games, but this was the first one from 1979, and then a year later, "Phoenix" was released, and it looked similar to this one, except the boss where you fight the mothership, and "Galaga" was a much better improvement than this game, and it was a sequel to this game.
And it was these games that graced us what we have today as Bullet Hell shooters :D
0:57 and 1:00: Let’s go! Shoot the aliens! (1:03 and 1:07)
2:11: FREQUENCY CAUTION! (12:37, 12:40, 12:41 and 12:42)
8:00 and 8:04: BONUS! (10:54)
9:44: EXTRA LIFE!
13:03 and 13:05: GAME OVER!
You would find the Galaxian symbol on a few arcade games
Pac -Man
Galaga
Dig-Dug
Super Pac Man
and other Namco arcade.
I remember as a schoolkid I used to play this game at my local Chinese restaurant. 1981 if I rememember
Amazing !!!!!
Blimey I haven't seen this for decades.
I once fell of the stool trying to avoid the reds and yellow ones.
With a joystick or whatever they were called of course, impossible with buttons.
The purple ones were horrific, the way they moved sideways at the end, made my stomach turn.
In fact, my stomach was turning like in 1980 when I watched this just now !
Very cool play, thank you! 🙏 Focus, I have learned from this game. I hate the purple Ga that always slammed you on the side! 😂😂😂
17 ko of memory for this game, it's incredible
Primeiro jogo q eu joguei na vida versao atari 2600, q saudosismo rever uma gameplay dele
you know,the past few days,I have gone back and started playing the old Atari 5200 games that I missed as a kid,namely Galaxian,and I never realized how BRUTAL the 5200 version is......lol.almost makes the Arcade version look tame!!!...lol :P
Was my favourite game back in the day as a kid , got quite good at it too , if i played it today I would be lucky if i lasted a minute lol
People in 1978: Ugh.. i wish space invaders was in COLOR...
People in 1979: Ok, how did they do this?!?!?
I played this at a little store near a supermarket in San Diego back when I was 5 - man, I sucked out loud at this game then.
i wish i wasn’t that young how i play this game is through mini arcade they are really cool tho i have a “Dig Dug one, a Q*Bert one and a pretty big Namco Museum one”
I came to ground in 1981; One life with this game.
With these video game, begins my love for this hobby
you can download it from my last video for windows
Great game for 1979
I got this game on Jaxx Pacific. Along with a lot of other classic games.
this is dope
Kyle L that may be the best comment ive ever seen
I think you should try to play it pal you haven't got a chance
I love this game when I was a kid.
I loved this game, along with Phoenix, if I ran out of money, I have my sister stand guard at the machine, so no-one could get on whilst I went to the kiosk to get more, lol.
Played this for the first time today, it was really fun. got no where near the highscore thats set on that cab though haha
I cut my teeth on Space invaders. This came later and was one of my favorites.
same here! The local chippy had one installed in 1980, and so began my 40 year love of gaming. After that they got a 'Cosmic Guerilla' cabinet and another one who's name escapes me!
Good ol' days...
Yo de República Dominicana me acuerda cuando yo era niño en san Pedro de Macorís mi ciudad natal que lindo juego
I play this game 1983 that time I'm 15 years old. I born 1968. Coronation Park Taiping Perak West Malaysia 👍
I have the my arcade mini cabinet and the sound when there is one more alien sounds like a telephone going on the fritz. It's hilarious